flatworm, how about a URL so we can see what you’re talking about? Sounds like the path to your stylesheet is not being found, so the pages are all ugly. But a URL would be helpful in seeing exactly what you’re talking about.

I understand your frustration on this issue flatworm, but as ChrisHajer has already told you, there has been some issue with installating bbPress on localhost. Go through the tickets that were linked above so you can get a better idea of the issues and maybe try this. Create a plugin called url-fix.php and put in the information from the link from this post:

flatworm, also, you can contact me via email and I will help get you running off-list. See my profile, go to that website and follow the the “contact us” link and email to support. I will help you out. You don’t need to get into the development of bbPress.

Also, you’re not experiencing ‘errors with graphics’ you’ve got a problem with the path to your stylesheet. That’s all. That may very well be a bug, but all software has bugs. Don’t just trade one problem for another.

Also, did you ever look in a rendered page (in your browser) for the stylesheet line? If you do see that (use ‘view source’ or something similar in your browser when you pull up a page similar to the one you took a screenshot of) post the information from that stylesheet line. My guess is that the slashes are backslashes.

Also, I never understood the point of installing community/forum software on localhost, unless it’s just for testing. Even if that’s the case, I prefer to test in the environment where it will be live so you’re not solving problems that won’t ever happen once it’s live, and you won’t experience new problems that you didn’t anticipate.

Trent, does the maintainer of the code know the localhost problem exists (yes, even with path-to-url.2.php plugin)? The only way I’ve managed to get around it is by directly editing the “bb-templates/kakumei” files.

Also, another note, I’m using lighttpd on a windows machine. This probably adds to the slash havoc.